Graduates
of the MSc in Knowledge Management will expected to employ their
knowledge and intellectual skills to help the organisations in
which they work to convert ideas into products, services or
processes or add to deeper knowledge and information of benefit to
the organisation. As practitioners, they may work for a wide
variety of organisations. Within a given organisation, knowledge
management projects in such organisations will be many and varied.
As practitioners, graduates will constantly be challenged to
become familiar with many and varied organisational domains and
processes undertaken in these domains. They will also consistently
be challenged to remain up to date with new innovations in
computing which may be applicable to knowledge management. In
addition, they may be involved in scoping and assessing the
feasibility of knowledge management initiatives.

It is therefore essential that they are equipped
with the skills necessary to undertake such research and develop
research proposals for a knowledge management projects. This will
be achieved by developing the studentís abilities to locate
relevant research resources and to be able to critically analyse
them. Their expanded critical analysis abilities will be used to
evaluate a range of research literature and research methods. The
student will learn how to successfully manage their research
processes and how to scope a research project. In addition the
student will be equipped with the necessary skills to employ all
of the above with additional technical writing tools and skills to
write a research proposal.

This module broadly covers three categories:

Research Methodologies

Data Analysis Techniques

Research Proposal Writing

The Research Methodologies element will expose
the students to a range of approaches in undertaking research in
the field of Knowledge Management. The students will be expected
to critically analyse and synthesise appropriate research
literature. The student will also be provided with an
understanding of the requirements of a Masters level project.

The Data Analysis element will expose the
student to both Quantitative and Qualititative approaches to
describing and summarizing data that has been collected. The
students will be expected to identify and utilize correct analysis
techniques for a range of Knowledge-Based scenarios.

The Proposal Writing element will develop the
studentís skills in planning and constructing research proposals
providing students an understanding of the requirements of a
Masters Dissertation proposal addressing issues such as scope and
technical writing.